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The Strange Little Cat | DVD Review

Ramon Zürcher’s student project turned festival darling debut is an odd, wholly original work that bears little resemblance to anything of recent memory. Essentially...

Best of 2014: Jordan M. Smith’s Top 20 (Picks 10-1)

#20. The Skeleton Twins #19. Obvious Child #18. A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness #17. Wild #16. 112 Weddings #15. The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga #14. Tales of...

Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this August: Ramon Zürcher’s The Strange Little Cat

The Strange Little Cat NYC Release (Film Society of Lincoln Center) – August 1st Distributor: Fandor Awards & Fests: It debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in 2013, and...

The Strange Little Cat | Review

In a Word: Pulchritude Buried in Cannes' most unassuming and roundly ignored sidebar, ACID (an acronym for what translates to "The Association for the Distribution...

Fandor Purrs to the Sound of Zürcher’s “The Strange Little Cat”

Just prior to its one week stint over at the FilmLinc in August, TheWrap reports that Fandor have put The Strange Little Cat in...

The Future is Now: Top 20 New Faces from TIFF 2013

Now that the dust has settled and the behemoth TIFF is in our rear-view mirror, the IONCINEMA.com team are comparing notes, grading films and...

Tsai Ming-Liang, Cristi Puiu, Albert Serra & Philip Gröning Among Off-beat Offerings in TIFF’s Wavelengths

Programmer Andrea Picard can do no wrong. From the compiled short and medium film offerings (see listing below for huge sampling of renowned world...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.